Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disposed to take up new things; catching at novelty; fond of change; inconstant: with reference to persons (or animals).
- noun A new or novel fashion; a novelty.
- To change by introducing novelties.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Eager for novelties; desirous of changing.
- transitive verb obsolete To change by introducing novelties.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Eager for novelties; desirous of changing.
- verb obsolete To change by introducing novelties
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Examples
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Mr. Thomas Reid, the sexton, was heard to remark from time to time that he "didn't hold with th'm newfangle fashins in dress;" but he was a regular old conservative, and most people agreed with Mr. Abraham Boosey of the Duke's Head, who had often been to London, and who said she did "look just A one, slap up, she did!"
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'Just what I reckoned all that newfangle rubbish.'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'Just what I reckoned all that newfangle rubbish.'
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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'Just what I reckoned all that newfangle rubbish.'
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The tools to manipulate NetCDF and HDF4 files. newfangle
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The tools to manipulate NetCDF and HDF4 files. newfangle
freshmeat.net Releases Gaspar Sinai 2010
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The tools to manipulate NetCDF and HDF4 files. newfangle
freshmeat.net Releases scdbackup 2010
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The tools to manipulate NetCDF and HDF4 files. newfangle
freshmeat.net Releases scdbackup 2010
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